John supported his mother and brother Alex, Jr. against other family members in court battle, concerning father's estate after the untimely January 1830 death of Alex, Sr.

John and Cassandra removed their family from Clarke (until March 1836, Frederick) county to Jefferson county, Virginia (West Virginia in 1863) ca 1845 then in 1851 west by covered wagon to Harrison county's upper Tenmile creek area (10 years after her father freed his slaves and year her beloved uncle or brother, John, died) along the Northwestern Turnpike (now U S 50), built mid to late 1830s. Joining them was Joe Johnson, second husband of John's younger sister, Eleanor S (Wood) Brown and children. who had first married Cassandra's older brother, Henry Brown and had two boys. They were later reportedly visiting at their older brother Alex Wood, Jr (1805-1887) and family home with 114 slaves, near Millwood, Clarke county during the John Brown (of Kansas, not related) incident at Harper's Ferry 16 October 1859; up all night at windows with guns in hand without incident when the Marines led by Robert E. Lee arrived. Within 36 hours of the attack, most of Brown's men had been killed or captured.

John Wood's family was but one on many West Virginia (and the nation's) families split with sons joining both the Union and Confederate armies. James Alexander and John Henry in the Union army with their younger brother, Thomas Kennerly, fighting in the Confederate army.

• Married: 6 DEC 1832 in Frederick County, Virginia

1. James Alexander Wood b: 19 JAN 1834 in Frederick County, Virginia
2. Sarah Elizabeth Wood b: 9 DEC 1835 in near Winchester, Frederick (now Clarke County), Virginia
3. Frances Adalaide Wood b: 27 JAN 1838 in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
4. John Henry Wood b: 1 OCT 1839 in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
5. Thomas Kennerly Wood b: 2 JUN 1842 in Clarke County, Virginia
6. Lucy Ellen Wood b: 7 APR 1843 in Shenandoah Valley, Clarke County, Virginia
7. William Franklin Wood b: 28 DEC 1845 in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
8. Henrietta Jane Wood b: 3 AUG 1847 in Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, Virginia
9. Robert Albert Wood b: 11 MAR 1849 in Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, Virginia
10. George Brown Wood b: 28 JAN 1852 in Tenmile, Harrison County, West Virginia
11. Charles Homer Wood b: 27 APR 1857 in Tenmile, Harrison County, West Virginia

1. Abbrev: William Samuel Boggess (billboggess@webtv.net), Flora and Boggess families
   Title: Hough & Martin family material and pictures from family, gathered and passed down through the years, in possession of and shared by Jane Hough, Hough.j@hotmail.com. David and Sarah Boggess' family information provided by Ree Jarrett and David Houchin of Clarksburg.
   
   
   Text: Information provided by Bill Boggess came from Wood cousins David Owings and Joe Baughman.
2. Abbrev: 1850 Federal Census
   Title: Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA
   Quality: 1
   Page: District 28, Jefferson, Virginia; Roll M432_953; Page: 350; D 841, F 853, lines 5-15, 11 August 1850
3. Abbrev: William Samuel Boggess (billboggess@webtv.net), Flora and Boggess families
   Title: Hough & Martin family material and pictures from family, gathered and passed down through the years, in possession of and shared by Jane Hough, Hough.j@hotmail.com. David and Sarah Boggess' family information provided by Ree Jarrett and David Houchin of Clarksburg.
   
   
   Quality: 3
4. Abbrev: 1860 Federal Census
   Title: Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1,438 rolls.
   Quality: 1
   Page: Harrison, Virginia; Roll M653_1351; Page: 913; D 1212, F 1211, lines 30-37, no date